A This recent article follows on news from last year of a possible legal battle over the inability to resell games bought via Steam, which conflicts with a recent EU legal ruling. Word is the VZBV has filed a complaint in a Berlin district court over this. GameSpot has a response from Valve to this, as the company says it has not received a formal notice about his. "We are aware of the press release about the lawsuit filed by the VZBV, but we have not yet seen the actual complaint," Valve said. "That said, we understand the complaint is somehow regarding the transferability of Steam accounts, despite the fact that this issue has already been ruled upon favorably to Valve in a prior case between Valve and the VZBV by the German supreme court. For now, we are continuing to extend the Steam services to gamers in Germany and around the world."

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El Pit wrote on Feb 2, 2013, 15:38:Now imagine somebody would put those movies on something like a disc. And sell it to you. And then - would you be able to resell it? I know, I got strange ideas with movies on discs, but nevertheless.... Okay, that wouldn't work if you bought the disc but the movie would be somehow bound to some user account of yours.

I like the old times, where we bought a tape, watched it and sold it again.

I like Steam, got a lot of games on Steam, but I'd really love to sell some of those that I either don't like or will never play again. You know, like in old times.

Yet in return for these changes we get other benefits, like ease of use, no storage, massive sales and niche titles being more profitable. Change is scary but you can't say digital is a total bad.

I think people should be supported for their work, not see identical experiences give them nothing in return thanks to reselling games as if they were physical objects that lose value over time. I hope this fails.